Donors and ethical compliance

Our study is in agreement with applicable French regulations and with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. PBMCs of healthy blood from anonymous donors at the Toulouse blood transfusion center (Etablissement Français du Sang) were from a biobank authorized under agreement number 2-15-36 by the competent ethics board Comité de Protection des Personnes Sud-Ouest et Outre-Mer II, Toulouse. The cohort ANRS EP_53 X-LIBRIS (coordinator: Pr. P. Delobel, CHU Purpan) allows the study of HIV-1 donors has been previously described (Azar et al, 2020). The X-LIBRIS cohort was previously registered with ClinicalTrials.gov under identifier {"type":"clinical-trial","attrs":{"text":"NCT01952587","term_id":"NCT01952587"}}NCT01952587.